﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?>
<rss xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0">
  <channel>
    <title>Top Technology News -- ScienceDaily</title>
    <link>http://www.sciencedaily.com/top/technology/</link>
    <description>Top stories featured on ScienceDaily's Space &amp; Time, Matter &amp; Energy, and Computers &amp; Math sections.</description>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:12:01 EST</pubDate>
    <lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:12:01 EST</lastBuildDate>
    <ttl>60</ttl>
    <image>
      <title>ScienceDailyTop Technology News</title>
      <url>http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/scidaily-logo-rss.png</url>
      <link>http://www.sciencedaily.com/top/technology/</link>
      <description>For more science news, visit ScienceDaily.</description>
    </image>

    <atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology" />
    <feedburner:info uri="sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology" />
    <atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" />
    <feedburner:emailServiceId>sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology</feedburner:emailServiceId>
    <feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname>
    <item>
      <title>'Gravity'-style space debris threat from giant satellite explored</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/JtuIKSY7nRo/140219075444.htm</link>
      <description>Physics students have pointed out that the huge observational satellite Envisat – which lost contact with Earth in 2012 – could potentially pose a threat similar to the events which plague Sandra Bullock in the Oscar-nominated sci-fi thriller Gravity.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/JtuIKSY7nRo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 07:54:44 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140219075444.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140219075444.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Diamonds in the tail of the scorpion: Star cluster Messier 7</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/qbGM4-H6a28/140219075205.htm</link>
      <description>A new image shows the bright star cluster Messier 7. Easily spotted with the naked eye close to the tail of the constellation of Scorpius, it is one of the most prominent open clusters of stars in the sky — making it an important astronomical research target.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/qbGM4-H6a28" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 07:52:05 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140219075205.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140219075205.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Better way to make sense of 'Big Data?'</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/bRstspd7s1M/140218185128.htm</link>
      <description>Big data is everywhere, and we are constantly told that it holds the answers to almost any problem we want to solve. But simply having lots of data is not the same as understanding it. New mathematical tools are needed to extract meaning from enormous data sets. Researchers now challenge the most recent advances in this field, using a classic mathematical concept to tackle the outstanding problems in big data analysis.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/bRstspd7s1M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:51:28 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218185128.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218185128.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Regenerating orthopedic tissues within the human body</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/PnWvsLR7UGk/140218185104.htm</link>
      <description>Performing tissue repair with stem cells typically requires applying copious amounts of growth factor proteins -- a task that is very expensive and becomes challenging once the developing material is implanted within a body. A team of biomedical engineers has developed a polymer scaffold for growing cartilage that includes gene therapy vectors to induce stem cells to produce the growth factors they need. The new technique -- biomaterial-mediated gene delivery -- is shown to produce cartilage at least as good biochemically and biomechanically as if the growth factors were introduced in the laboratory.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/PnWvsLR7UGk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:51:04 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218185104.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218185104.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Synthetic molecular oscillator discoveries may help create artificial cells</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/1o70J6ap3gU/140218163411.htm</link>
      <description>Researchers have made important discoveries regarding the behavior of a synthetic molecular oscillator, which could serve as a timekeeping device to control artificial cells. The team developed methods to screen thousands of copies of this oscillator using small droplets, and found, surprisingly, that the oscillators inside these small droplets behave in a very diverse way in terms of period, amplitude and phase.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/1o70J6ap3gU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:34:11 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218163411.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218163411.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Rife with hype, exoplanet study needs patience and refinement</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/Ds9yqjB684s/140218153817.htm</link>
      <description>Despite many trumpeted results, few 'hard facts' about exoplanet atmospheres have actually been collected, and most of these data are of 'marginal utility,' according to a review of exoplanet research by an astrophysicist. The dominant methods for studying exoplanet atmospheres are not intended for planets trillions of miles from Earth. Instead, the future of exoplanet study should focus on the more difficult but comprehensive method of spectrometry.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/Ds9yqjB684s" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:38:17 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218153817.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218153817.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Scientists successfully simulate 'neutronics' — the behavior of neutrons in a reactor core</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/Z4Xg2oUYq24/140218153726.htm</link>
      <description>Scientists and engineers developing more accurate approaches to analyzing nuclear power reactors have successfully tested a new suite of computer codes that closely model “neutronics” — the behavior of neutrons in a reactor core.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/Z4Xg2oUYq24" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:37:26 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218153726.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218153726.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Researchers home in on Alzheimer's disease: Supercomputer helps guide new drug designs</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/cDcT0vkFQpY/140218153720.htm</link>
      <description>Researchers studying peptides using a supercomputer have found new ways to elucidate the creation of the toxic oligomers associated with Alzheimer’s disease.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/cDcT0vkFQpY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:37:20 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218153720.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218153720.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Smartphone app aids college-age women in abusive relationships, study shows</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/PF0UidZDEjI/140218143404.htm</link>
      <description>In an effort to connect more young women with safety information, researchers have developed the 'One Love My Plan' smartphone application, an interactive tool that helps college-age women in abusive relationships clarify their priorities and customize personal safety plans. The app is aimed at younger women who are most likely to be in abusive relationships, and are less likely than older adults to seek formal safety resources, instead looking to peers or technology for help and advice.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/PF0UidZDEjI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:34:04 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218143404.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218143404.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Controlling magnetism with an electric field</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/mJ60-wLuHgM/140218143332.htm</link>
      <description>Scientists are now proposing a novel approach to achieve greater memory density while producing less heat: by using an electric field instead of a current to turn magnetism on and off, thereby encoding the electrical devices.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/mJ60-wLuHgM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:33:32 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218143332.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218143332.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Battery small enough to be injected, energetic enough to track salmon</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/qx0idA4g5NI/140218143330.htm</link>
      <description>Scientists have created a microbattery that packs twice the energy compared to current microbatteries used to monitor the movements of salmon. The battery is just slightly larger than a long grain of rice, however is not the world's smallest battery. Engineers have created batteries far tinier than the width of a human hair, but those smaller batteries don't hold enough energy to power acoustic fish tags. The new battery is small enough to be injected into an organism and holds much more energy than similar-sized batteries.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/qx0idA4g5NI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:33:30 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218143330.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218143330.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>When a black hole shreds a star, a bright flare tells the story</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/Ms05FJV5fdI/140218143234.htm</link>
      <description>A new study explains what happens during the disruption of a normal sun-like star by a supermassive black hole. The study shows why observers might fail to see evidence of the hydrogen in the star, casting doubt on a 2012 report of the disruption of an exotic helium star.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/Ms05FJV5fdI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:32:34 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218143234.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218143234.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Hubble watches stars' clockwork motion in nearby galaxy</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/94f9W7EJwO0/140218142255.htm</link>
      <description>Using the sharp-eyed NASA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have for the first time precisely measured the rotation rate of a galaxy based on the clock-like movement of its stars. According to their analysis, the central part of the neighboring galaxy, called the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), completes a rotation every 250 million years.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/94f9W7EJwO0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:22:55 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218142255.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218142255.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Breakthrough development of flexible 1D-1R memory cell array</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/JRQrw81DTCk/140218124536.htm</link>
      <description>With the introduction of curved smartphones, flexible electronic goods are gradually moving to the center stages of various markets. Flexible display technology is the culmination of the latest, cutting-edge electric cell device technology. Developing such products, however, requires not only a curved display, but also operational precision of other parts, including the memory, in a flexible state. Scientists have now developed a bendable organic carbon nano compound-based 64bit memory. It shows improved data performance by limiting the direction of electric currents.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/JRQrw81DTCk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 12:45:36 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218124536.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218124536.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Artificial leaf jumps developmental hurdle</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/cJ_b3LxKDEk/140218124430.htm</link>
      <description>Scientists report advances toward perfecting a functional artificial leaf. Designing an artificial leaf that uses solar energy to convert water cheaply and efficiently into hydrogen and oxygen is an important goal. Hydrogen is an important fuel in itself and serves as an indispensible reagent for the production of light hydrocarbon fuels from heavy petroleum feed stocks. Society requires a renewable source of fuel that is widely distributed, abundant, inexpensive and environmentally clean. Society needs cheap hydrogen.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/cJ_b3LxKDEk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 12:44:30 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218124430.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218124430.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Caps not the culprit in nanotube chirality: New study narrows possibilities for gaining control of nanotube type</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/KcX9417sD8w/140218114301.htm</link>
      <description>The energy involved in carbon cap formation does not dictate the chirality of a single-walled nanotube, according to theoretical research. The work contributes to the continuing search for a way to grow nanotubes of the same selected chirality.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/KcX9417sD8w" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:43:01 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218114301.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218114301.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Ion beams pave way to new kinds of valves for use in spintronics</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/gbTtkvzKCCQ/140218114229.htm</link>
      <description>Researchers have tested a new approach to fabricating spin valves. Using ion beams, they structured an iron aluminum alloy in such a way as to subdivide the material into individually magnetizable regions at the nanometer scale. The alloy functions as a spin valve, which is of interest for use in spintronics. Not only does this technology use electron charge for purposes of information storage and processing, it also draws on its inherent magnetic properties (that is, its spin).&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/gbTtkvzKCCQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:42:29 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218114229.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218114229.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Bats inspire 'micro air vehicle' designs: Small flying vehicles, complete with flapping wings, may now be designed</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/zc_z87CQAXM/140218114225.htm</link>
      <description>By exploring how creatures in nature are able to fly by flapping their wings, researchers hope to apply that knowledge toward designing small flying vehicles known as "micro air vehicles" with flapping wings.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/zc_z87CQAXM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:42:25 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218114225.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218114225.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>World's most powerful terahertz laser chip</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/Kin3xuNh5Mg/140218110754.htm</link>
      <description>Researchers have built the world's most powerful terahertz laser chip. The new laser chip has exceeded a 1 Watt output power from a quantum cascade terahertz laser. The new record more than doubles landmarks set last year. Terahertz waves, which lie in the part of the electromagnetic spectrum between infrared and microwaves, can penetrate materials that block visible light and have a wide range of possible uses including chemical analysis, security scanning, medical imaging, and telecommunications. Widely publicised potential applications include monitoring pharmaceutical products, the remote sensing of chemical signatures of explosives in unopened envelopes, and the non-invasive detection of cancers in the human body.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/Kin3xuNh5Mg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:07:54 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218110754.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218110754.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Stretchable, bendable electronics: A stretchable highway for light</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/sGHYs_RsWHg/140218110741.htm</link>
      <description>Electronics that bend and stretch have been demonstrated, but similar work in optics has lagged behind. Particularly difficult to engineer have been optics that stretch, lengthening when someone wearing body sensors bends to tie their shoe, or when a robotic arm twists through a full range of motion. Now scientists report the first optical circuit that uses interconnections that are not only bendable, but also stretchable.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/sGHYs_RsWHg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:07:41 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218110741.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218110741.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Blu-ray player detects microorganisms and toxins on discs</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/qkTnAzT9Cgc/140218110529.htm</link>
      <description>In addition to storing films, optical discs can be used to detect microorganisms, toxins, allergens and tumoral biomarkers. Blu-ray technology has allowed researchers to develop a way to find out if a sample contains Salmonella or toxic substances. This simple and cheap analytical system may be applied to clinical diagnosis and environmental monitoring.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/qkTnAzT9Cgc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:05:29 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218110529.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218110529.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Crowdsourced testers prefer new cyber search method: Faster searches on computers and hand-held devices</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/W-OYNgGjbEs/140218101016.htm</link>
      <description>Computer scientists have developed a new tool to search and fetch electronic files that saves users time by more quickly identifying and retrieving the most relevant information on their computers and hand-held devices.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/W-OYNgGjbEs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:10:16 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218101016.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218101016.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Computer arranges pictures based on artistic features</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/g3kvcHncfHk/140218100719.htm</link>
      <description>Until now, if a nature photographer wanted to arrange pictures of various butterflies systematically based on color or size to create an illustrated book, a lot of time was needed: The artist would have to arrange the individual pictures of the animals on the computer by hand to bring them into the requested order. Suitable software that would have been able to arrange pictures automatically based on certain characteristics did not exist. Researchers have now developed a method that makes it possible to arrange numerous pictures very fast.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/g3kvcHncfHk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:07:19 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218100719.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218100719.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Progress in the automatic detection of water contaminants</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/zttf9Tfr_L0/140218100620.htm</link>
      <description>Researchers are working in the development of hydrocarbons early detection devices for rivers in order to prevent contamination that could seriously affect the environment. The new devices use ultraviolet LED as light source that detects contaminant substances thanks to a fluorescence method. This can result in many benefits compared to the current systems due to the development of faster, robust and affordable detection systems. These new devices will be useful for the search of potential dangerous substances present in continental waters.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/zttf9Tfr_L0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:06:20 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218100620.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218100620.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Single chip device to provide real-time 3-D images from inside the heart, blood vessels</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/P4oaszxYzJE/140218100049.htm</link>
      <description>Researchers have developed the technology for a catheter-based device that would provide forward-looking, real-time, three-dimensional imaging from inside the heart, coronary arteries and peripheral blood vessels.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/P4oaszxYzJE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:00:49 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218100049.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218100049.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Solar-induced hybrid fuel cell produces electricity directly from biomass</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/ltOYzu1Xr7U/140218100047.htm</link>
      <description>Researchers have developed a new type of low-temperature fuel cell that directly converts biomass to electricity with assistance from a catalyst activated by solar or thermal energy.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/ltOYzu1Xr7U" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:00:47 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218100047.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218100047.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Global warming: Warning against abrupt stop to geoengineering method (if started)</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/DTXklm7CRkE/140217200823.htm</link>
      <description>As a range of climate change mitigation scenarios are discussed, researchers have found that the injection of sulfate particles into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight and curb the effects of global warming could pose a severe threat if not maintained indefinitely and supported by strict reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/DTXklm7CRkE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:08:23 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140217200823.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140217200823.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>It’s alive! Bacteria-filled liquid crystals could improve biosensing</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/EOvk6Qdu_gw/140217200749.htm</link>
      <description>Plop living, swimming bacteria into a novel water-based, nontoxic liquid crystal and a new physics takes over. The dynamic interaction of the bacteria with the liquid crystal creates a novel form of soft matter: living liquid crystal. This new type of active material holds promise for improving the early detection of diseases.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/EOvk6Qdu_gw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:07:49 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140217200749.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140217200749.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>How evolution shapes the geometries of life</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/iA1jf17zg24/140217161106.htm</link>
      <description>An interdisciplinary team re-examined Kleiber's Law, a famous 80-year-old equation that accurately describes many biological phenomena, although scientists don't agree on why it works. The team shows that Kleiber's Law captures the physics and mathematics underlying the evolution of plants' and animals' different, but equally efficient forms.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/iA1jf17zg24" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:11:06 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140217161106.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140217161106.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Better batters from brain-training research: Baseball player study significantly improves vision, reduces strikeouts</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/7tvB5gvcb4U/140217121656.htm</link>
      <description>UC Riverside baseball players who participated in novel brain-training research saw significant improvement in vision, resulting in fewer strikeouts and more hits. The experiment demonstrated that improvements from a multiple perceptual-learning approach transfer to real-world tasks.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/7tvB5gvcb4U" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:16:56 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140217121656.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140217121656.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Ultra-small and ultra–fast electro-optic modulator</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/AYTAzrcgwVk/140217102547.htm</link>
      <description>Thanks to optical signals, mails and data can be transmitted rapidly around the globe. But also exchange of digital information between electronic chips may be accelerated and energy efficiency might be increased by using optical signals. However, this would require simple methods to switch from electrical to optical signals. Researchers have now developed a device of 29 microns in length, which converts signals at a rate of about 40 gigabits per second. It is the most compact high-speed phase modulator in the world.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/AYTAzrcgwVk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:25:47 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140217102547.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140217102547.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Einstein's conversion from a belief in a static to an expanding universe</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/vQboYiyh7xk/140217102545.htm</link>
      <description>Albert Einstein accepted the modern cosmological view that the universe is expanding long after many of his contemporaries. Until 1931, physicist Albert Einstein believed that the universe was static. An urban legend attributes this change of perspective to when American astronomer Edwin Hubble showed Einstein his observations of redshift in the light emitted by far away nebulae -- today known as galaxies. But the reality is more complex. The change in Einstein’s viewpoint, in fact, resulted from a tortuous thought process. Now researchers explain how Einstein changed his mind following many encounters with some of the most influential astrophysicists of his generation.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/vQboYiyh7xk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:25:45 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140217102545.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140217102545.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Urgent need to recycle rare metals</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/2FLcE0qS-UE/140217102543.htm</link>
      <description>Rare earth metals are important components in green energy products such as wind turbines and eco-cars. But the scarcity of these metals is worrying the European Union.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/2FLcE0qS-UE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:25:43 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140217102543.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140217102543.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Space station SPHERES run circles around ordinary satellites</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/Qowbr6eBw8g/140217101530.htm</link>
      <description>Inspired by a floating droid battling Luke Skywalker in the film Star Wars, the free-flying satellites known as Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) have been flying aboard the International Space Station since Expedition 8 in 2003. Although there have been numerous SPHERES investigations held on the orbiting laboratory, four current and upcoming SPHERES projects are of particular significance to robotics engineers, rocket launch companies, NASA exploration and anyone who uses communications systems on Earth.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/Qowbr6eBw8g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:15:30 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140217101530.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140217101530.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>K-Glass: Extremely low-powered, high-performance head-mounted display embedding an augmented reality chip</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/Xq6iy1RFY5M/140217084420.htm</link>
      <description>Researchers in South Korea have developed K-Glass, a wearable, hands-free HMD that enables users to find restaurants while checking out their menus.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/Xq6iy1RFY5M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 08:44:20 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140217084420.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140217084420.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>New 'pomegranate-inspired' design solves problems for lithium-ion batteries</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/vJHa1ro-W6c/140216151743.htm</link>
      <description>A novel battery electrode features silicon nanoparticles clustered like pomegranate seeds in a tough carbon rind. The design could enable smaller, lighter rechargeable batteries for electric cars, cell phones and other devices.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/vJHa1ro-W6c" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:17:43 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140216151743.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140216151743.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Researchers hijack cancer migration mechanism to 'move' brain tumors</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/3pWs49Ta29s/140216151409.htm</link>
      <description>One factor that makes glioblastoma cancers so difficult to treat is that malignant cells from the tumors spread throughout the brain by following nerve fibers and blood vessels to invade new locations. Now, researchers have learned to hijack this migratory mechanism, turning it against the cancer by using a film of nanofibers thinner than human hair to lure tumor cells away.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/3pWs49Ta29s" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:14:09 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140216151409.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140216151409.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Nanoelectronics key to advances in renewable energy</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/kZaKybGzpiQ/140216151405.htm</link>
      <description>An electrical engineer explains why advances in nanoelectronics will shape the future of renewable energy technologies.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/kZaKybGzpiQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:14:05 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140216151405.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140216151405.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Harvesting light, the single-molecule way: Molecular mechanism of light harvesting may illuminate path forward to future solar cells</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/u9SeOwtl_2k/140216151401.htm</link>
      <description>Scientists have reached new insights into one of the molecular mechanisms behind light harvesting, which enables photosynthetic organisms to thrive, even as weather conditions change from full sunlight to deep cloud cover. Probing these natural systems is helping us understand the basic mechanisms of light harvesting -- work that could help improve the design and efficiency of devices like solar cells in the future.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/u9SeOwtl_2k" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:14:01 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140216151401.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140216151401.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Using crowdsourcing to solve complex problems</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/5PXEU9baWlg/140216091604.htm</link>
      <description>Computer scientists havae designed new forms of crowd-supported, mixed-initiative systems that tightly integrate crowd work, community process and intelligent user interfaces to solve complex problems that no machine nor person could solve alone. The systems can ease challenges in designing a custom trip or planning an academic conference, for example. Researchers created a tool that uses crowd sourcing to plan custom trip itineraries which enables an academic community to plan a conference by "community-sourcing."&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/5PXEU9baWlg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:16:04 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140216091604.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140216091604.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Robotic fish aids understanding of how animals move</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/zUmodh7GX_s/140215191858.htm</link>
      <description>The weakly electric black ghost knifefish of the Amazon basin has inspired scientists to develop agile fish robots that could lead to a vast improvement in underwater vehicles used to study fragile coral reefs or repair damaged deep sea oil rigs.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/zUmodh7GX_s" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2014 19:18:58 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140215191858.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140215191858.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Repeal of Missouri's background check law associated with increase in state's murders</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/UNidFznvCgY/140215122532.htm</link>
      <description>Missouri's 2007 repeal of its permit-to-purchase (PTP) handgun law, which required all handgun purchasers to obtain a license verifying that they have passed a background check, contributed to a sixteen percent increase in Missouri's murder rate, according to a new study.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/UNidFznvCgY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2014 12:25:32 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140215122532.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140215122532.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Responding to potential asteroid redirect mission targets</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/3l8C3oGKxxQ/140215105758.htm</link>
      <description>One year ago, on Feb. 15, 2013, the world witnessed the dangers presented by near-Earth Objects (NEOs) when a relatively small asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere, exploding over Chelyabinsk, Russia, and releasing more energy than a large atomic bomb. Tracking near-Earth asteroids has been a significant endeavor for NASA and the broader astronomical community, which has discovered 10,713 known near-Earth objects to date. NASA is now pursuing new partnerships and collaborations in an Asteroid Grand Challenge to accelerate NASA's existing planetary defense work, which will help find all asteroid threats to human population and know what to do about them. In parallel, NASA is developing an Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) -- a first-ever mission to identify, capture and redirect an asteroid to a safe orbit of Earth's moon for future exploration by astronauts in the 2020s.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/3l8C3oGKxxQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:57:58 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140215105758.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140215105758.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Is truth stranger than fiction? Yes, especially for science fiction</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/J3JQMX_NEzg/140214152048.htm</link>
      <description>From warp drives to hyperspace, science fiction has continuously borrowed from, and sometimes anticipated, the state of the art in scientific progress. This has resulted in the perception that science and science fiction have a causal relationship, one finding direction from and fulfilling the science fantasy laid out before it. But that is rarely the case, according to Lawrence Krauss, a Foundation professor at Arizona State University.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/J3JQMX_NEzg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:20:48 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214152048.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214152048.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Mars rover heads uphill after solving 'doughnut' riddle</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/d83nUXEU1aM/140214144030.htm</link>
      <description>Researchers have determined the now-infamous Martian rock resembling a jelly doughnut, dubbed Pinnacle Island, is a piece of a larger rock broken and moved by the wheel of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity in early January.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/d83nUXEU1aM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:40:30 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214144030.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214144030.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Superbright, fast X-rays image single layer of proteins</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/0uaIm4CdI8k/140214130913.htm</link>
      <description>In biology, a protein's shape is key to understanding how it causes disease or toxicity. Researchers who use X-rays to takes snapshots of proteins need a billion copies of the same protein stacked and packed into a neat crystal. Now, scientists using exceptionally bright and fast X-rays can take a picture that rivals conventional methods with a sheet of proteins just one protein molecule thick.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/0uaIm4CdI8k" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:09:13 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214130913.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214130913.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Geographical passwords easier to remember</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/UhKRGvitxI8/140214130903.htm</link>
      <description>It's much easier to remember a place you have visited than a long, complicated password, which is why s computer scientist is developing a system he calls geographical passwords.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/UhKRGvitxI8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:09:03 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214130903.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214130903.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Citizenship goes digital: Online gaming effective in teaching civics</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/_T9Xi3WeWOs/140214130713.htm</link>
      <description>Can playing online video games help students learn civics education? According to researchers, the answer is yes. They studied the effectiveness of iCivics, a free online website founded by retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor that teaches civics concepts using 19 educational games.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/_T9Xi3WeWOs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:07:13 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214130713.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214130713.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Optimizing donor kidney distribution in the United States</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/JHcIskAW8R4/140214111100.htm</link>
      <description>Nearly 5,000 people die each year in the US waiting for a kidney transplant. A researcher has now developed a mathematical model that simulates and optimizes donor kidney distribution. The model identifies areas for policy changes, including encouraging more sharing within states. The innovative model could help ease inequities among regions in the US and ultimately help save hundreds of lives.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/JHcIskAW8R4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:11:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214111100.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214111100.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Screening wastewater biosolids for environmental contaminants: Antimicrobial products cause for concern</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/2YytZX4je5k/140214101559.htm</link>
      <description>Researchers describe a cost-effective method for screening chemicals found in wastewater biosolids used in fertilizer for potential environmental impact. They have used the test to show that triclosan, an antimicrobial agent currently under fire from environmentalists, has troubling concentrations in the environment, and they raise suspicions about three other commonly used antimicrobial products.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/2YytZX4je5k" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 10:15:59 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214101559.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214101559.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Carbon nanotube fibers outperform copper in carrying electrical current</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/nj9iPD1C07Q/140214101555.htm</link>
      <description>Carbon nanotube-based fibers have greater capacity to carry electrical current than copper cables of the same mass, scientists show.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/nj9iPD1C07Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 10:15:55 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214101555.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214101555.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Future industry: No chance for industrial pirates with highly secure networks</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/21p0lGO-a9M/140214092102.htm</link>
      <description>In the future, production facilities will be able to communicate and interact with one another, and machinery will often be remote-serviced. But no company boss wants to run the risk of opening the door to industrial espionage and sabotage with unsecure networks. A new development offers a particularly high level of security.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/21p0lGO-a9M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:21:02 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214092102.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214092102.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Potentially revolutionary material: Scientists produce a novel form of artificial graphene</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/shORcwmfVo8/140214075441.htm</link>
      <description>A new breed of ultra thin super-material has the potential to cause a technological revolution. “Artificial graphene” should lead to faster, smaller and lighter electronic and optical devices of all kinds, including higher performance photovoltaic cells, lasers or LED lighting.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/shORcwmfVo8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 07:54:41 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214075441.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214075441.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Revolutionary portable lab for rapid and low-cost diagnosis</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/KGlRp76qT9w/140214075409.htm</link>
      <description>Do you remember James Bond film Casino Royale? After being poisoned, the agent uses a portable diagnostic kit to identify the toxic substance and alert his HQ in London. Such type of technology is not fiction anymore. Researchers have developed a ground-breaking diagnostic system based on smart cards and skin patches combined with a portable reader. Test results can directly be sent to a remote computer, a tablet or a smartphone through a wireless connection. This small lab can already detect cocaine consumption, monitor colon cancer, identify bacteria in food and analyze environmental contamination. Many other useful applications can be foreseen.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/KGlRp76qT9w" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 07:54:09 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214075409.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214075409.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Chronology of geological events prior to the great extinction 66 million years ago</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/DzIOphiXz1o/140214075407.htm</link>
      <description>New research focusing on the last 3 million years of the Cretaceous period, managed to detail exactly the chronology of the climatic, magnetic and biological events prior to the great extinction of 66 million years ago (Ma.), which includes the disappearance of almost all dinosaurs (except birds). Scientists analyzed gravitational interactions between the Earth, the Moon, the Sun and the planets of the solar system (principally Jupiter) in their work.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/DzIOphiXz1o" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 07:54:07 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214075407.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214075407.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Vehicle-to-vehicle communications research moves forward in the United States</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/_etOG4GwP6E/140214075355.htm</link>
      <description>Following a U.S. Department of Transportation call to require vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology for all cars and light trucks on the nation’s highways, scientists are designing the delivery integration framework that will allow vehicles to “talk” with their drivers and with other automobiles on the roadway.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/_etOG4GwP6E" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 07:53:55 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214075355.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140214075355.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Cancer drugs hitch a ride on 'smart' gold nanoshells</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/himhnoWUltE/140213220423.htm</link>
      <description>Nanoparticles capable of delivering drugs to specifically targeted cancer cells have been created by a group of researchers from China.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/himhnoWUltE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2014 22:04:23 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140213220423.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140213220423.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Massachusetts' fire-safe cigarette law appears to decrease likelihood of residential fires</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/Xa04DjcNKPE/140213184945.htm</link>
      <description>A six-year-old Massachusetts law requiring that only "fire-safe" cigarettes be sold in the state appears to decrease the likelihood of unintentional residential fires caused by cigarettes by 28 percent, according to a new study.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/Xa04DjcNKPE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:49:45 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140213184945.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140213184945.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Amidst bitter cold, rising energy costs, new concerns about energy insecurity</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/EoCi8GRF21E/140213153538.htm</link>
      <description>With many regions of the country braced by an unrelenting cold snap, the problem of energy insecurity continues to go unreported despite its toll on the most vulnerable. In a new brief, researchers paint a picture of the families most impacted by this problem and suggest recommendations to alleviate its chokehold on millions of struggling Americans.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/EoCi8GRF21E" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:35:38 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140213153538.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140213153538.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Understanding everything from family structure to trauma: New technology is yielding bigger data</title>
      <link>http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/vWRXkwoFkk4/140213142315.htm</link>
      <description>Social media can do more than just entertain us and keep us connected. It also can help scientists better understand human behavior and social dynamics. The volume of data created through new technology and social media such as Facebook and Twitter is lending insight into everything from mapping modern family dynamics to predicting postpartum depression.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~4/vWRXkwoFkk4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:23:15 EST</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140213142315.htm</guid>
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140213142315.htm</feedburner:origLink>
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>
<!-- Page successfully written to cache. -->
<!-- Cached Wed, 19 Feb 2014 15:12:01 GMT -->
<!-- cached Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:36:01 EST -->
